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...slot fits the volunteer perfectly, the experience may even help answer the eternal question: What do I do with the rest of my life? Robert Kinney, 58, head of the Federal Public Defender's Office in Las Cruces, N.M., may have found his answer when he agreed to a stint for the International Senior Lawyers Project, which uses experienced attorneys to promote the rule of law around the world. After Kinney spent three months (pro bono, but with expenses paid) setting up Bulgaria's first public defender's office and a month in Mongolia on a similar mission, his vision...
...million for his 1 million shares. Other executives and directors were rewarded for their efforts. Rick Lazio, a four-term Republican from West Islip, N.Y., who effectively gave up his House seat for an unsuccessful Senate run against Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2000, collected $512,675 for a brief stint as a director. That amounted to nearly twice the $282,000 paid to all 6,000 retirees. The $12.08 a share that the new managers received for little more than two years of work was 134 times the 9¢ a share handed out earlier to lifelong workers...
...will be joining the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty when he arrives this January. All in all, a man who can multiply both money and knowledge is an altogether valuable thing in a university community. The Oxbridge-educated El-Erian has a resume that boasts a 15-year stint at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as a shorter one at the brokerage of Salomon Smith Barney. Prior to accepting the HMC position, El-Erian was managing a $28 billion emerging market portfolio at the Pacific Investment Managing Company (PIMCO), an endowment slightly larger than Harvard?...
...infamous photographs from the prison--including being chained at the neck and dragged around like a dog. While these claims cannot be verified without knowing his real name, al-Tamimi showed TIME scars on his leg that appeared consistent with lashing by electrical wires. He also says the stint in prison made him more religious. By the time al-Tamimi emerged nine months later, Saddam had been captured and the nature of the insurgency had changed: the Baathist networks, including al-Tamimi's group Jaish Mohammed, had in some cases joined forces with Islamic extremist organizations. Rejoining the leadership...
...sitter" when he reached his company's mandatory retirement age of 57. "I was still able to work every day," says Hagiwara, who spent 30 years developing better feed for fish farming. So he enlisted with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which sent him for a two-year stint to teach fish farming in the mountains of Honduras. When that was finished, he re-upped for a tour in Malaysia and then Egypt. "I thought it would be good if I could use my experience and work for someone else," says the dapper 67-year...